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slatey

/ ˈsleɪtɪ /

adjective

  1. informal,  slightly mad; crazy

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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In the all but abandoned Revel corporate offices, overlooking a slatey winter sea, two of the remaining Revel employees were waiting for Straub to arrive.

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The angle steepened as we went on very slowly now, but still steadily enough, until we reached the rocks, a frail slatey structure with short perpendicular pitches.

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He has a prominent nose, slatey grey eyes and a certain heaviness about the mouth.

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At one place we noticed that the solid slatey rocks were hewn and dressed into shape, and thus formed part of the wall itself, a mixture of Nature’s handiwork and the work of man.

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It was a bank on which slices of slatey stone had been laid, much as in Germany slabs of cold sausage are laid upon bread.

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